--- title: What principal failing did the mariners exhibit at the banquet? — A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24… · tree and pragmatics description: What principal failing did the mariners exhibit at the banquet? Exam question 3 of lesson 2065 «A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast on golden thrones, then turn into hogs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2065-pg976-part24/e3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2065-pg976-part24/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast… What principal failing did the mariners exhibit at the banquet? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** principal failing, mariners · **What happens:** do, exhibit · **To what, where:** banquet This is exam question 3 of lesson 2065 «A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast on golden thrones, then turn into hogs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/2065-pg976-part24/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e3:1 # text = What principal failing did the mariners exhibit at the banquet? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 principal principal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 failing failing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 mariners mariner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 exhibit exhibit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 banquet banquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | principal failing | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **exhibit** | present | the mariners | | | the banquet | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Cowardice and anger ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e3:o1:1 # text = Cowardice and anger 1 Cowardice cowardice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Their excessive gluttony and foolish boasting at the table ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e3:o2:1 # text = Their excessive gluttony and foolish boasting at the table 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 excessive excessive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 gluttony gluttony NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 foolish foolish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 6 boasting boast VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **boast** *speech: other* | gerund | Their excessive gluttony *not said here* | | | the table | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Excessive drinking and loud, reckless eating ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e3:o3:1 # text = Excessive drinking and loud, reckless eating 1 Excessive excessive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 drinking drinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 4 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 reckless reckless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 eating eating NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Excessive gluttony ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e3:o4:1 # text = Excessive gluttony 1 Excessive excessive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 gluttony gluttony NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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